I remember Mrs. Hubble as a little curly sharp-edged person in sky-blue, who held a conventionally juvenile position, because she had married Mr. Hubble,—I don’t know at what remote period,—when she was much younger than he.

According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true.

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I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds; but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool.

There are no more uses of "convention" identified with this meaning in the book.

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It was once conventional wisdom that the earth was flat.

In most countries, the convention is to shake the head to indicate "no", but in Bulgaria that indicates "yes".